Spiridon Maidachenko

Spiridon Maidachenko was a Russian archimandrite of St Panteleimon Monastery, born in 1879 into a peasant family at Firsovo-⁠Maidanovo, Bessarabia province. He reposed on 24 May 1957, in the monastery, and was buried in its cemetery. He is venerated by the faithful, without a synodal canonization.

Named Simeon Gordeevich in the world, the son of Paraskeva, he had decided in childhood, together with his maternal cousin Naum, later the schemamonk Nikephoros, to become a monk. On 18 March 1902 he was received at St Panteleimon. Later he persistently defended the interests of the monastery without condemning anyone. He spent his last two years in the monastery, ill, but bore the illness with courage. He reposed on 24 May 1957.